Covid was not the underlying cause of death in 23% of all virus-related fatalities in England last week, the Office for National Statistics found.
Of the 922 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week to January 7, 210 fatalities where Coronavirus was involved found it was a contributing mortality factor but not the main one.
Recent MailOnline analysis suggests daily deaths from Covid in the UK are running at less than half the expected mortality rate in a bad flu year — approximately 200 per day amid the Omicron peak compared to 400 influenza deaths in the flu season of 2017-2018